Rockpool’s Bar and Grill wine list on top with 3,500 different wines in the cellar
Rockpool wins best wine list 2010
Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine has named the top honours for restaurants and bars at the 2010 Restaurant Awards here Down Under this week. Sydney’s Rockpool Bar and Grill has the top winelist in the country, a great and well deserved result.
Australia’s Star Chef Neil Perry and his business partners, Trish Richards and David Doyle were thrilled with these awards and commended the restaurant’s dedicated wine team, consisting of Nicole Reimers (Wine List Consultant) and Sophie Otton (Head Sommelier) who, with Doyle, were responsible for creating the list that features over 3,500 different wines.
Representing an investment of $9 million, Doyle has spent over 20 years amassing the core of the restaurant’s extraordinary wine list.“We believe that enjoyment of wine is a key aspect of the Rockpool Bar & Grill experience and in order to provide our diners with enough choice among the world’s best wines, we have assembled what they believe to be one of the best wine lists in the world,” says Doyle.
Let us reflect on these numbers: it would take me almost 10 years, if I would frequent Rockpool Bar and Grill daily and chose a different bottle of wine each time! My bank manager would most likely stop me doing that after the first couple of weeks, so there is a limited risk for me to drink this much in the years to come.
The oldest bottle stems from 1795 with 32 selections of Penfolds Grange as the major highlight of fine Australian wines. For those who can afford to dine out in Rockpool’s art deco skyscraper we can confirm: the list includes expensive rare and fine wines as well as less expensive and still drinkable reds and whites. Apparently about 10% of the wine on the list cost less than $100 – to be honest, we haven’t counted them (yet).
Congratulations to the Rockpool team for taking the prize this year, their first since opening in early 2009.
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Sydney’s hippest Restaurant in diesen Tagen ist das Rockpool Bar & Grill, seine Weinkarte erhielt dieser Tage die Auszeichnung: Best Australian Wine List. 3.500 Weine aus allen Teilen dieser Welt wurden von Star-Chef Neil Perry und seinen Geschaeftspartnern gesammelt und hier gelagert, ein Investment von ca. $9 Millionen.
Wir gratulieren dem Rockpool Bar & Grill und empfehlen Ihnen den Blick auf Weinkarte bei Ihrem naechsten Besuch in der pulsierenden Metropole Down Under. Sydney hat mit dieser Weinkarte einen klaren kulinarischen Vorteil im Staedteduell mit Melbourne – fuer dieses Jahr zumindest.
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